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R. C. SIMMONS.

DIE. APPLICATION FILED NOV-17. l9-

Patented Feb. 15, 1921.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RALPH C. SIMMONS, 0F BEVERLY. MASSACHUSETTS. ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN-MENTS, TO UNITED SHOE MACHINERY CORPORATION, OF PATERSON, NEW JER- SEY.A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

DIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 15, 1921.

To alZ whom it may concern Be it known that I, RALPH C. SIMMONS, acitizen of the United States, residing at Beverly, in the county ofEssex and tntc of Massachusettahave invented certain I'm' provementsihDi'es, of which the following description, in connection with the;acconr panying drawingais aspecifi'catiou, like reference characters onthe drawings indicatingdike parts-in the several figures.

his invention relates to dies and especially. to cutting dies. in whicha wall terminates at onev extremity in a cutting edge and has at the.othen a. handle b which it may be manipulated and to which operatingpressure is. applied.

In such dies it may be desired, to remove at. one time all the pieces ofout. material which may have gathered Within the wall oi, the die as a:result of successive opera tions. Such occasion may arise when the cutpieces are to be supplied to the magazine of a machine which. operates.on them.

An object of: the invention. is to provide an. arrangement of the, dieand handle whereby access may readily be had to the out material held inthepdie. To attain this object. I so attach. the handle to the die thatit may be caused to occupy a, position oppo site the die opening for thecutting operation, clurhig said handle approaches or is in contact withthe die wall, or a position at one side of the opening to free the diefor the removal of the out material. As illustratedhereim, the handle,or a cross bar or: member carrying said handle, is pivoted at one sideof the die and at the opposite side is separabl secured by some suchmeans as a latch.

Another object of theinvention is to render the securing means for thedie handle constantly associated with the die controllable with aminimum effort and without the necessity for shifting to any markedextent by the operator his grip upon the handle from that existin duringthe cutting relation tothat for t e removal of the cut material. To thisend I preferably mount the latch upon the handle and so 10- cate theactuating portion thereof that it may be engaged by one finger of theoperator without changing the position of the hand as a whole. Thepresent embodiment of the invention shows the finger piece of the latchextendin in the same general direction as the ham is but bein curvedoutwardly therefrom to give an efiective engaging surface for theoperators little finger.

A further object of the invention is to so arrange the handle that whilecapable of release as already described, it shall be so curely fixedwith relation. to the die during the cutting operation. Therefore, inaddition. to the hinged connection, 1 furnish means for preventinglateral movement of the handle upon the (lie when they are latchedtogether. This may consist of such engaging means as a projection orprojec tions upon one of the elements entering :1 dc ression ordepressions in the other.

no of the various possible forms. of the invention appears in theaccompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is an end elevation of myimproved die;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof, parts being broken away; and

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the die with the handle removed.

it 10 appears the body portion of a die, this consisting of a side wallsurrounding an opening of the form of the object to be produced, in thepresent case the lift of a shoe heel, this wall terminating at its lowerportion in a cutting edge 12. Near the upper edge of the die is a lu 1.4projecting horizontally and being perforated to receive the pivot whichconnects the handle portion. The handle proper l6 rises vertically fromthe center of a cross bar 18, this bar above the lug 14 extending at 20beyond the die wall and being provided with a pair of depending lugs2222 so spaced from one another as to lie upon opposite sides of the lug14 and having perforations to receive a pivot bolt 24 which also entersthe opening in the lug 14:. Between lugs 26 at the opposite end of thecross bar from the portion 20 is pivoted a securing member or latch 28having a hooked end 30 formed to enter a recess 32 in the wall of thedie. To hold the latch projection in engagement with its recess a spri34 is located between the latch above its pivot and an abutment workmanma 36 rising from the cross bar. The finger piec'eBSof the latch extendsupwardly in the same general direction as the handle 16 but at itsextremity is curved outwardly to rive an effective engagino s rface forthe finger of the operator. W hen the body of the die and the handle arein their normal or cutting relation, they are held against movement overone another laterally by posite slots or depressions 40, 40 formed inone of the bin ed elements, here shown as the die, into w .ieh enterprojections 42, 42'

until it is full. Then, without changing the position of the hand uponthe handle, the engage the latch portion 38 with his little finger,shifting the latch about its pivot until the projection 30 is withdrawnfrom the recess in the die body. This allows the cross bar and handle tobe swung about its hinged portion, entirely freeing the up per dieopening through which the cut material may easily be removed. When thehandle and cross bar are swung back to their normal position the roundededge of the latch rides over the edge of the die wall and the spring 34seats the projection 30 in its recess to lock the parts together.

Havin .thus described my invention, what I c aim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. The combination with a die having an opening unobstructed within itswall, of a handle attached to the die at each side of the openingandbeingmovable to occupy either an operatin position in which itbridges the die-wa 1. closing the opening against the removal'of cutmaterial or a position free of the opening to permit the removal of saidmaterial.

2. The combination with a die having an opening, of a handle pivoted tothe die to swing either opposite the openin into contact with the edgeof the die-wal or to one side thereof.

3. The combination with a die including a wall provided with a cuttingedge, of a handle therefor, and a hinged connection between the die andhandle permitting said handle to rest normally upon the edge of the wallopposite the cutting edge.

4. The combination with a die, of a handle therefor, a hinged connectionbetween the die and handle, and means independent dle and a hinge formovabl of the hinge for securing said die and handle.

5. The combination with a die, of a handle therefor, a hinged connectionbetween the die and handle and a latch for securing said die and hen e.'

6. The combination with a die, of a cross bar extending across the die,a handle car- 8. The combination with a die for constant association, ofa handle, means for gnovably connecting the handle and die, and

retaining member movable with the handle and cooperatingwith the die,said member having a finger piece extending in the same generaldirection as the handle.

9. The combination with a die for constant association, of a handle,means for movably connecting the handle and die, and a latch movablewith the handle and 006perating with the die, said latch having a fingerpiece extendin in the same general directionas the hen le and itsextremity being curved outwardly fromthe handle;

10. The combination with a die havin an opening, of a handle, means forattac ing the'handle to the die at each side of the openin said handlebeing movable 'to occupy eit or an operating osition opposite theopening or a position cc of the opening to permit the removal ofcutmaterial, said handle and die having enga ing means to preventlateral movement ogthese elements.

11. The combination with a die, of a hen dle therefor and a bin edconnection between the die and hand e, said handle and die beingprovided with means for relieving the bin e of lateral strain. 1

v 12. e combination with a die, of a henattaching the handle to the wallof the ie, said handle and die being provided with a coiiperatlngprojection and depression.

13. The combination with a die having slots across op osite sides of itswall, a cross bar entering t e slots, a handle carried by the cross bar,and means for movably secpring the cross bar in engagement wit the sots.

14. The combination with a die havin an opening, of a, handle pivoted tothe die to swing either opposite the openin or to one side thereof, thedie and handle eing provided with a projection and depression whichcotiperate when the handle is opposite the die openin 15. Thecombination with a die havin'gan ing and opening, of Lt handle for oierating the die mounted thereon to move eit er opposite the openinginto operating engagement with the die well or to one side of saidopening.

16. The combination with a die having an opening, of a bar extendingacross the open being pivotelly connected at one extremity to the die. ahandle carried by the bar, and a securing device mounted upon the bar atthe end opposite the connection to the 10 die.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

RALPH C. SIMMONS.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,368,363, grantedFebruary 15,

1921, upon the application of Ralph 0. Simmons, of Beverly,Massachusetts, for

an improvement in Dies, errors appear in the printed specificationrequiring correction as follows: Page 2, lines 83 and 84 and 90 and 91,claims 8 and 9, strike out the words for constant association same page,lines 85 and 92, claims 8 and 9, after the word die insert the words andcomma for constant association,; and that the said Letters Patent shouldbe read with these corrections therein that the same may conform to therecord of the case in the Patent Oflice.

Signed and sealed this 3d day of May, A. D., 1921.

[sEALJ T. E. ROBERTSON,

Commissioner of Patents. Cl. 164-29.

